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Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and segregation. In practice, these attempts are given many names, such as citizen panels, deliberative fora, collaborative dialogues, etc. In the academic literature as well, the phenomenon falls under many different headings, for instance collaborative, deliberative or interactive governance. Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy refers to this empirical phenomenon as local participatory governance, that is, government-sponsored direct participation between invited citizens and local officials in concrete arrangements and concerning problems that affect them. Participatory governance, we argue, may take many forms, regarding (1) type of interaction and type of communication between participants within the specific participatory arrangement (e.g., deliberative vs. aggregative) as well as regarding (2) the relation and connection between the specific arrangement and the more traditional representative structures (e.g., compatible, incompatible, transformative or irrelevant). The proposed edited volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements.
Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal with the complexity inherent in many contemporary public problems, such as climate change and segregation. In practice, these attempts are given many names, such as citizen panels, deliberative fora, collaborative dialogues, etc. In the academic literature as well, the phenomenon falls under many different headings, for instance collaborative, deliberative or interactive governance. Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy refers to this empirical phenomenon as local participatory governance, that is, government-sponsored direct participation between invited citizens and local officials in concrete arrangements and concerning problems that affect them. Participatory governance, we argue, may take many forms, regarding (1) type of interaction and type of communication between participants within the specific participatory arrangement (e.g., deliberative vs. aggregative) as well as regarding (2) the relation and connection between the specific arrangement and the more traditional representative structures (e.g., compatible, incompatible, transformative or irrelevant). The proposed edited volume addresses the matter of institutionalization, highlighting the difficulties associated with establishing stability and a shared understanding of the roles and rules among citizens, local politicians and administrators in participatory arrangements.
Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her
letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished
critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the
nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of
one of her early letters, for her "not simply to "be," but to
"utter.""
Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her
letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished
critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the
nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of
one of her early letters, for her "not simply to "be," but to
"utter.""
Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century
interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in
English a complete collection of his writings on art and
literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his
work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his
first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907
"Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva"" and concluding with the
1940 posthumous publication of "Medusa's Head." Many of the essays
included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary
literary and art criticism and theory.
Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century
interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in
English a complete collection of his writings on art and
literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his
work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning with his
first published analysis of a work of literature, the 1907
"Delusion and Dreams in Jensen's "Gradiva"" and concluding with the
1940 posthumous publication of "Medusa's Head." Many of the essays
included in this collection have been crucial in contemporary
literary and art criticism and theory.
For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations that have shaped it in ways that make it seem intractable, from powerful nationalist and theological ideologies to the more practical concerns of the people who live there and just want to carry out their lives without the constant threat of war. In 2011, Neil Hertz lived in Ramallah in Palestine's occupied West Bank and taught in nearby Jerusalem. With "Pastoral in Palestine", he offers a personal take on the conflict. Though the situation has resulted in the erosion of both societies, Hertz could find no one in either Israel or Palestine who expressed much hope for a solution. Instead, they are resigned to find ways to live with the situation. Illustrated throughout with full-color photographs captured by Hertz, "Pastoral in Palestine" puts a human face to politics in the Middle East.
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